Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 35
And she rubbed the whole bundle of matches quickly against the wall, for she wanted to be quite sure of keeping her grandmother near her.
Who acts: stove · What happens: rub, want, be, keep · To what, where: whole bundle, wall, grandmother
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stove), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 rubbed | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rubbed | nsubj |
| 3 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bundle | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bundle | amod |
| 6 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rubbed | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 matches | case |
| 8 | matches | match | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bundle | nmod |
| 9 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 rubbed | advmod |
| 10 | against | against | ADP | _ | 12 wall | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wall | det |
| 12 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rubbed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wanted | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 wanted | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wanted | nsubj |
| 16 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rubbed | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 sure | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 sure | cop |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 sure | advmod |
| 20 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wanted | xcomp |
| 21 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 keeping | mark |
| 22 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 sure | advcl |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 24 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 keeping | obj |
| 25 | near | near | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 keeping | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rubbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | past | stove | the whole bundle of matches | the wall | quickly property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme against wall=Destination | ||
| 2 | want | past | stove | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | stove not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | keep | gerund | stove not said here | stove's grandmother | near stove | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent grandmother=Theme near she=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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